About: Author, Designing With Web Standards. Founder, Happy Cog™ design studios, A List Apart. Co-founder, An Event Apart, The Big Web Show. Publisher, A Book Apart.
Location: New York, NY
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"Socially transmitted functionality" = conventions you are unlikely to discover; they must be shown to you by a friend. @jmspool #aea
Consistently, in testing, users ignore the "global" links turf warriors have crammed into the interface. #aea
.@frankdilo We will post @marcoarment 's slides online soon. #aea
"The media of design is behavior." Robert Fabricant, quoted by @jmspool. #design #aea
People don't mindlessly 'hate change." They hate change that destroys their investment in time spent learning to use your site. #aea
Notes from An Event Apart Atlanta 2012 http://t.co/EQg26IxN #aea
An Event Apart: Buttons are a Hack. Notes by @lukew on great talk by @globalmoxie. http://t.co/1Ys7p4zP
The shorter the gap between current knowledge and target knowledge, the more "intuitive" we say the app is. #design @jmspool #aea
Design lives in gap between current knowledge (what the user already knows) and target knowledge (what they must know to use our app). #aea
Keep focus on the user's objective, not the interface. #intuitive #design @jmspool #aea
@_s42 There are no videos of this event. Slides will remain available for those who attended the show. Not available to the public. #aea
@rvhoss ha ha
.@tdaffron A "user" isn't an author, a photographer, a person. "Generated" sounds like it's an automatic process instead of creative. #aea
"User-generated content" is a horrible phrase, says @marcoarment. Agreed! #aea
@cindyli Bye, Cindy. You were great! We love you.
With web apps, offline access is still treated as merely a suggestion. If you need real offline access, you need an app. @marcoarment #aea
Marco Arment #aea @ An Event Apart http://t.co/q9RWgMXE
When a website isn't enough: when you need *real* hardware access. #aea
If you're primarily a content site, you probably don't need an app. @marcoarment #aea
Companies ask, "Do we need an app?" They may also ask, "Do we need a website?" #aea
